Tenochtitlan featured numerous dam systems to prevent flooding from torrential rains, but Spanish conquistadors failed to appreciate the ingenuity of this indigenous infrastructure, destroying many of the pre-Hispanic constructions in the early years of genocides and barbarism of Spanish colonization.
Archaeologists had to rebury the structures due to lack of funds.
I read it at the website of Smithsonian too. Kind of sad that they had to bury it due to lack of funding.
I wish the Spanish did the same instead of destroying many other Aztec tunnels.
Costs associated with the Covid-19 pandemic have placed the preservation project on an indefinite hold
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Mexican Archaeologists Forced to Bury an Unusual Discovery Made in Old Aztec Capital
www.sciencealert.comIn a strange turn of events, researchers in Mexico have announced they plan to rebury an unusual archaeological monument found in the outskirts of Mexico City – covering up an important historical discovery until some unknown time in the future.